Word: carbonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed sedan parked in the street at Guilford, Conn., police found two dead persons who had apparently been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes, though the ignition was shut off. To prove to baffled police that the victims could not have been asphyxiated when the car was in the open, Yale Physiologist Yandell Henderson entered the tightly-closed sedan, sat safely inside 25 minutes with the motor running...
Four scientists working at the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory together with two undergraduates, have been undergoing the risk of death or a loss of sanity by exposing themselves to carbon monoxide gas. The tests are being made in order to ascertain further the effects of the gas on motorists...
...sudden breakdown may occur any time. Forbes, in taking one of the tests, passed successfully, but afterwards fainted without the slightest premonition that he was in danger. He was revived only by quick action, and it was found that his blood had been more than half saturated with carbon monoxide...
...radiation) is received in a living cell. The high energy carried on the photon swings the electrons of the cell up to correspondingly high energy levels which represent temperatures of 1,000,000°. This lasts for only some .00001 sec., but large protein molecules may be broken up, carbon dioxide and hydrogen given off, and water molecules in the cell oxidized to hydrogen peroxide. The cell may then sicken and die. If it is a cell in the reproductive germ plasm, a mutation or hereditary change may occur...
...suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, carbon, nitrogen, and many another terrestrial element have been identified by comparing the solar spectrum with very clear spectra of substances photographed in the laboratory...